From 1983 to 1998, he was a member of the German Bundestag, where he was first Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Electoral Examination, Immunity and Rules of Procedure from 1990 to 1992 and Chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into Commercial Coordination and Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski from 1991 to 1992. He was then Chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs from 1992 to 1998.[2]
